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  • Stop watching me, you electron creepers.

  • i was about to post the same thing and then saw that

  • not to be a thumb whore but upvote forrestgump1987's comment because there is actually legitimate reason for it to be at the top

  • This show is produced by a cult that believes a 35000 year old atlantean is channeling its leader. seriously.

    look it up. don't take this mystical bullshit as real science.

  • Why does he keep saying electrons? Aren't light particles photons, or does the actual experiment use electrons?

  • @sphires Photons are produced when an electron falls down from electron cloud level to a lower one, the resulting energy is in the form of photons exiting the atomic particle.

  • @pearsonlands When you say "falls" does that mean moving away from the nucleus to a wider shell or the other way? Also, what part of the experiment is causing this shift?

  • IT WAS GOD!

    *Dramatic Music*

  • what?

  • "But the quantum world is far more mysterious than they could have imagined!"

    "But the quantum world gave you the middle finger and continued fucking your mother and your grand mother /at the same time!/"

  • OMFG THIS MAKES NO SENSE!! =D

  • @xyroclast what movie is it from? Not what the bleep do we know is it??

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  • I have a solid postulate that answers this experiment. watch "Quantum Philosophy Workshop"

  • @williamahumphrey

    ಠ_ಠ

  • what propaganda filth

  • id put my dick through those slits

  • Yet scientists are still "certain" that God doesn't exist, right?

  • @jabe55 Why bring God into this? Theological inferences unnecessarily complicate existing data. Beside, wouldn't that be admitting that science has caught up with and exposed the reality that God want's us to believe?

  • @PhilosoPheebs Well, yes! In a sense, it does... Nonetheless, that is precisely my point! Scientists religiously contradict themselves when they attempt to pompously, explain away the inception of the universe. By doing so, they ultimately discredit themselves in the process. Stephen Hawkin stated around 10 years ago how God sustains the order of the universe, now he contradicts himself stating that "God doesn't exist." A prime example for 'compromising one's credibility', isn't it?

  • @jabe55 What? If anything scientists have earned their credibility for researching, measuring, calculating, charting, dating, exploring and thus explaining the inception of the universe. As opposed to a person who (religiously) bases their entire explanation of the inception of the universe on a belief system that has gone through many different translations and even loss of data throughout history because it was either selectively edited or destroyed. Where's the logic in that?

  • @PhilosoPheebs You must be an atheist! Have you ever heard of the "Dead Sea Scrolls" which were found? They are the original manuscripts of many books of the bible and they were painstakingly compared and contrasted with the interpretation of current scriptures and were more similar than dissimilar in their overall natures.

    "No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life." --Albert Einstein

  • @jabe55 again, what does religion have to do with a scientific discussion? One is based on calculative data, and the other on poetic verse/scripture/unverifiable testimony.

    SO, I could respect/understand your argument if we were having a theological discussion (in fact I have no doubt that you are well educated on that subject), the video and topic at hand however, is based on physics and the scientifically observed behavior of electrons. I don't think it constructive to mix topics.

  • @PhilosoPheebs For evidence pointing to the bible's validity as God's word and the probability of each fulfilled prophecy, please refer to the following link:

    wwwdotreasonsdotorg/fulfilled-­prophecy-evidence-reliability-­bible

    Scientists state that the universe continues to expand, yet the bible stated that fact more than 2,000 years ago. Case in point, Jeremiah 51:15 "He made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and (stretches) out the heavens by his understanding."

  • @jabe55 a quoted bible verse isn't very helpful or comparable to a scientific discussion. Just because you can find the word "stretches" in a verse, doesn't really support it's validity as a comparison to a calculated explanation of our expanding universe.

  • @jabe55 there's a simple explanation for your quotes of renowned scientists using religious names and phrases: spirituality can exist, independent of religion. After all there are scientific studies on what happens to our brains/consciousness after death, the brain is complex after all we only use 10 percent and there is still much to learn about it.

    The chemical reaction that occurs in our brains when experiencing a spiritual emotion might be a more rewarding explanation than a religious one.

  • @jabe55 You are so pathetic!

  • @watermelonygoodness And you are very childish! Instead of resorting to ad hominem tactics, try refuting any the facts which I stated. If you cannot, then be mature and hold your peace! I know the truth so I don't have to be angry anymore. Have a nice day!

  • @jabe55 You didn't state any facts. You stated a lie: that scientists are "certain" god does not exist? I've never heard a scientist make that claim. Further, your implication that the strangeness of the behavior of matter on a quantum level somehow pertains in any way to the existence of god is 1. devoid of any fact and 2. as I stated before: pathetic!

  • @watermelonygoodness Do you actually research any of my claims? Listen to Stephen Hawkins of the order of the universe, he states how God sustains the order. 10 years later, he contradicts himself stating otherwise.  Look it up! I can take you to the water, but I can't make you drink! What's pathetic is your skill in arguments.

  • @jabe55 yur siiiilly

  • @FACEJJ If you can disprove my claims then I will admit being silly.

  • @jabe55 Yes, they are bogus.

  • @jabe55 Yes. The sentence: 'God does not exist' is necessarily a true statement in a scientific sense because science tries to explain the empirically observable universe and God is not empirically observable.

  • so hes trying to say that when particles are observed they are put onto a level of existence that follows parliamentary physics. But when we dont measure them they exist in every possible outcome or existence. So do the experiment blind and see what happens.

  • da fuuuucck

  • infinite possibilities .... :)

  • Knowing what we do about life (or what little we know); is it really so WILD a concept that perhaps electrons are in fact living/conscious organisms?

    I'm not saying they're "GOD" or anything, I'm just suggesting that perhaps this whole time we've been studying what we currently know about physics; we've in fact just been observing the behavior of another living organism...

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  • more thought on this brings me to ask; why (if this IS in fact behavior we're observing), would electrons even bother to correct it's behavior to what is considered "normal"? Why humor our current understanding of physics? If it's capable of behaving in more than one way, why not do so at all times?

    On a lighter note (kinda); uh, are we in the Matrix?

    ^_~

  • Cracked

  • Also, after you understand this, look up "Wheeler's delayed choice experiment". It makes things even crazier somehow.

  • Awesome but what?

  • Stunning

    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! לא יאמן לא רק שהחומר קיים במצב סופרפוזיציה עצם הצפייה בניסוי מבטלת מצב זה! אחחח אני חולה על המדע המודרני

  • Explanation is simple. Electrons are tiny packets of waves and large enough to pass both slits at the same time. Therefore it have dual particle-waves characteristic.

  • @Marceli528 That still doesn't explain why it changes when it's being observed.

  • how do we know that the observer wasn't interfering with the photons? Im assuming it was a machine and maybe some frequencies would react with protons os they would coincidentally go through the two slits and prove the marble theory?

  • IT DOESN"T STOP THERE! Imagine that instead of observing which slit the electron will choose, place the observer on the other side to see which slit it CHOSE. The observation will cause the electron to behave as a particle and thus will be forced to choose a slit AFTER it already passed through it. This means that the past is altered in order to behave as a particle.

  • the visualisation of this is awesome, thanks

  • They shoud put 2 light sources each in one slit, then shoot one electron. Any predictions on result?:D

  • I think more reasonable explanation would be that universe is full of wave like particles which are smaller than electrons and still undetected, so even one electron can create interference pattern. Could do w/o superposition that way

  • @gaachLV it's called the super string theory

  • Watching this after I was told to in Physics class.

    Brain: ded.

  • An Interference Pattern!

  • i wondered how they know they were same electrons which they sent?

  • What is matter whichu?

  • Chaos by J. Gleick and The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene are the to books that best explain this experiment. Read them for yourself and don't let other people tell you how to think!

    ~Love, and do what thou Will~

  • watch?v=l1K2DMm8M4o

    this song is about Higgs! you gotta hear this!

    the first quantum physics song!!!

  • The experiment was slightly different than described, but the outcome is the same. when the first electron experiment was run, it was left to run without anyone in the room " observing " when they came back they see the interferance pattern.. then when they run it again while in the room " watching " the electrons behaved like marbles... tried it again, went out of the lab, came back, see interferance pattern... you get it..? the electrons are " conscious of being " watched" ...

  • My chem teacher is making me watch this.

  • I wonder if Dr. Quantum gets laid a lot, he is bound to get a lot of female attention with that spandex costume and cape.

  • Its very simple, electromagnetic waves are a result of the movement of electrons from one place to another. So if you shoot them, it creates an electromagnetic wave, which naturally has wave characteristics.

    Depending on how they are observing the electron, it could be the method influences the electron.

  • This video is a little misleading. The video leads you to believe that the electron "knows" it is being watched, which is incorrect. The very fact that you have to shine light on an electron to observe it gives the electron energy, which changes the electron's location in space. This goes back to the Uncertainty Principle , which states the more you know about an electron's position, the less you know about its momentum, and vice versa.

  • @Shatterwolf12 True enough, but the important thing to remember about the Uncertainty Principle is that it is NOT a statement about experimental limitations but about the system (here the electron) itself. One of the postulates of Quantum Mechanics was that a measurement does collapse a wavefunction into one of its eigenstates, so in a sense, the electron does behave differently when it is being "watched". It is not simply a result of interacting with the photon you would you to observe it.

  • @Shatterwolf12 according the book the god's particle by Leon lederman, it is said that quarks are aware of each other and behave with an harmony in which they choose how to act as if they have a consciousness. and i also heard about the observers effect on electrons and quarks, meaning that they behave in the way you want to see them; in other words they are aware of being watched. i think thats an interesting ability those particles possess in their nature.

  • @Shatterwolf12 I thumbed you down for complete and utter ignorance. It amuses me how even with something as profound as the collapse of the wave function by mere observation, do people continue to sway from the underlying truth. That we know little to absolutely nothing about this Universe. Here's a saying: "Someone is always laughing. Always."

  • @Sentinith The only point I was trying to make in my post was that the video lead the viewer to believe that the electron had a conscious mind and was aware of when it was being "watched". You are correct, what happens in this scenario is that the wave function collapses and the electron follows one of its many possible paths.

  • @Shatterwolf12

    Look up the quantum eraser experiment. It is essentially the double slit experiment, but altered so the electron is observed without any possible particle interference from photons/light.

  • @Shatterwolf12

    So can you explain the results of the double-slit experiment more accurately?( I'm not a physicist so have never even heard of the uncertainty principle but  I am interested in how physics seems to think it knows the truth about reality.

  • @Shatterwolf12 but, wouldnt they observe both slits, ie both sides have the same amount of light enter, as to not interfere with the final outcome?

  • @Shatterwolf12 I think you're underestimating the nature of the observer in physics. The electron doesn't become a particle again because it's been given more energy. In fact i'm not sure why you said this considering you recommended to go read about the Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser experiment, which proves that it is in fact the observer (our conciousness) which causes the wave function to collapse

  • @Shatterwolf12 Why do you have to shine light on it to observe it? Don't electrons emit observable energy as it is?

  • @Shatterwolf12

    No electron can never be observed, it is extremely small and is never in an exact location. You are really confused about the fundamentals of general physics.

  • @Shatterwolf12 That makes sense, But doesnt light come from the outside world and into our eye not vice versa

  • @MasteIsIllmatic What he means is, in order for our eye to observe light coming off the electron, light must first hit the electron and reflect back towards us. Thus the light has an effect on the electron.

  • @MasteIsIllmatic word, thanks god

  • @Shatterwolf12 Because the electrons and photons are so small many will pass through undetected and without interaction. Similar to how a quark can pass through the Earth without interaction. The ones that came in contact would do the unexpected while the ones that didn't would do the expected outcome and there would be a blending of the two. But that's not what happened. They all did the unexpected. They also used other detectors. Read about Wheeler or the quantum eraser.

  • @Shatterwolf12 I'm not trying to argue, I just have a question. You seem to know a lot about this I assume. Isn't light always hitting the electrons whether we observe it or not? I'm not smart, so I'm trying to get this to where I get whats going on. I'm so confused, I thought light waves were made of electrons. I need to rethink all of this :(

  • @Shatterwolf12 No. This video isn't trying to tell you that the electron's no they're being watched. It has nothing to do with light on the electron when it's being observed. This video is just showing that thing's that shouldn't happen can happen when they're is no one watching. Here is a little example. Your in your house a lone. you're facing your TV. Whose to say that whats behind you didn't disappear and when you turn around to look that it reappeared, before you could tell. ucant

  • @teaspooon1 @teaspooon1 I think what shatterwolf12 meant was that this video is biased (it's taken from a movie that assumes our neurological processes exhibit this quantum behavior. It's a terrible movie that is not supported by real science) And while this video doesn't talk about a collapse of the wave function caused by the measurement/observation , it doesn't mean this isn't what happens. As far as your example goes, it's wrong. Strange quantum behavior applies to small scales.

  • @Shatterwolf12 If you have a answer that proves that example wrong then tell me. Because there is no way to prove it what's so ever. Another example. In the middle of the desert where nobody is a rock shoot's up into space. It goes against physics but that doesn't mean it's wrong. They're is no way to say it didn't. You can't say it does do that, but you can't say it didn't because no one saw. I hope you understand what i'm saying. You may not though.

  • @teaspooon1 Actualy u can prove it wrong very easy, put a device that leaves marks on your object for example every second, then just dont look at it. After that look and ull see ur object marked thus proving it was there all time.

  • @teaspooon1 no i think it means that the rock dosent exist wile you not looking at it but it disides itself to exist becouse you look at it, wich is far more strange. so before you were looking at there was infiate posiblitys for it but wen you observe it it has to follow the rules of physics. :(

  • @Shatterwolf12 I don't think they were shining a light on it in order to observe it, that seems silly since they were shooting photons, it seems like they would be smart enough not to throw off the experiment like that. I do think this video is misleading in some ways, but the experiment itself did come with the conclusion that when you observe photons they behave differently.

  • @QueenofAntarctica

    They were observing electrons.

  • @QueenofAntarctica In order to observe the electrons you have to shine a light on it. In order to see something a photon (light) particle must first hit the object you are observing and then it bounces into you eye and that's when you actually see it. Their measuring device probably had a photon bounce off the electron in order to detect it's position. This changed the path of the electron because the photon had momentum. Our eye couldn't see just one photon though.Pretty sure

  • @QueenofAntarctica You can't tell where something is without bouncing a photon off of it. But each photon has momentum, observing imparts a momentum, changing the interference pattern. But the trouble is not using a high momentum photon, the problem is when it bounces off the electron and comes back to you, it diffracts and the momentum will have changed by an amount that you can not predict.

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  • @Shatterwolf12 Yeah seriously, if you understand this experiment fully it is WAY more crazy than this makes it sound. It's like the future changes the past somehow.

  • @Shatterwolf12 that may be but this vid is only trying to explain it to people. By considering the uncertainty principle it complicates it even more

  • So the quantum universe is simply the "realm of possibility" where literally all things and possibilities happen at once. We see the reaction of one particular thing happening based on factors/causes and reactions to cause it to happen. That doesn't make it so that we cause the reaction though, as we didn't physically see this and our math can be wrong. However, if this is all on a subatomic level only then it is possible and we only observe what we think we should observe based on what we know.

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  • I read 3 comments.I feel so dumb.

  • Does anyone know the measuring device used to tell which slit the electron went through?

    also does anyone know what real world device the "Electron Master" gun is?

  • @dmcIVdmc

    The "measuring device" is usually putting something, like a photon or an atom, in one of the slits. If the atom placed in the slit is disturbed, then the scientists know that the electron went through there.

    You can see, though, that that's exactly why the interference pattern vanishes. Not because we 'know' where the electron went - but because the electron interacted with something.

  • I'm never going to be able to function as a normal human being ever again.

  • @CaramellLuvr247 i got shown this as an introduction to quatum physics at A level, in the same lesson we were made to work out our own de broglie wavelength while travelling at 1m/s, i mean even the basics of quantum physics makes my head hurt >.<... why can't things just be simple? :P

  • @pankrazspancreas Lol I feel the same sometimes. I think it would be simple if you already know all the components and mathematics one tends to work with in problems like this, and if you have an aptitude for that type of thinking, ergo, you understand the concepts in your own way and understand how others explain it and any more knowledge you learn/hear/see about it. Not everyone learns the same way, so some people have a harder time with it.

  • What does this mean for Objectivist epistemology?

  • Look into the work of Thomas Campbell. He explains this beautifully. Consciousness is the only key element.

  • I had to grab a piece of paper and conduct the experiment myself to be convinced. Mind= blown after.

  • This is brilliant! I have been reading and listening to random discussions about the mystery and still perplexed, this clip just sum up everything in five minutes!

  • it's god taking the piss, now chill out!!

  • hahahahaha I just came here because of Hank aaand realized we watched this in our physics class XD How awesome!

  • @Mrmantisman1 you can try the experiment yourself. And what the hell does the Bible have to do with this? The Bible didn't mention the fact that the Earth orbited the sun - in fact the Church opposed this for multiple decades - and yet this is a widely known fact... please step out of the overzealous box.

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  • I'm sorry but this is BS, nowhere in the bible is quantum mechanics mentioned. this is hocus pocus.

  • @Mrmantisman1 haha now thats funny

  • the BIBLE is hocus pocus.

  • what the i don't even know

  • my brain hurts

  • This is interesting. :o

  • I still don't understand that..how just observing something can change the outcome >_<

  • @yupyup181818 Because when you "observe" something you have to interact with it. Therefore you affect the result at an atomic level by any act of "touching" it. Even if that is with a single photon of light. The same way you cannot feel something without touching it. Also every atomic particle like an Electron attempts every possibility simultaneously which is very crazy. By "touching" or Observing it you are forcing it to chose a single path rather than all paths.

  • @ojideagu Ahhhhh,I understand,thank you for clearing that up for me,it was driving me crazy.^^

  • @yupyup181818 Although there are a few physicists, one who was famous, who believe even conscious observing by an intelligent being creates change. That poses many problems though. This is the Copenhagen type interpretation.

  • I love Dr. Quantum. It completely feels like my old Grandpa explaining a lot of complicated shit in a simple, comprehensible way.

  • Reminds me of a Superhero Tom Hanks.

  • good job it's soo good carry on DR quantum

  • I just love physics

  • Thats why i love physics

  • i felt enlightened for a second @1:20

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  • I think my first guess what happens was wrong, my second is that the electron goes to the vaccum an comes back as it moves through space. Therefore there is charge then there is no charge then there is charge, then there is no charge an so on (this charge creates an alternating electric field). Because there is also a magnetic field when the electron moves. Its quite similar to an electromagnetic wave but not exactly the same.

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  • mother fucking god damn cunt shit cock fuck

    my head

  • pleasse read the "Ok here is what i think comment first"

  • Ok here is what i think what is happening, -> When the electron flows through air or vacuum it creates a magnetic field around it, exactly the same way as when the electron flows through a conducting wire it creates a magnetic field circular arround the wire. In a wire the magnetic field will collapse if you remove the voltage who drives the electrons. the remaining electrons in the wire will collapse the field.

  • so what this is saying is that reality is ordered by the viewer so dose this prove we are living in a simulation that the pc that we reside in is stoping us seeing the wave so we keep thinking it is real and not a simulation or is our subconcios mind changing reality it self  or what ????? that was a question not a statment

  • Drunk Tank!

  • The content of THIS video may be fine (I don't know), but keep in mind that it's from a movie made by students of Ramtha's School of Enlightenment, run by a woman who claims to be CHANNELING THE 35,000 YEAR OLD WARRIOR GOD RAMTHA.

  • I fucking hate when new agers use this experiment to prove whatever super natural claim they propose. Its very well possible that we will find an explanation to this one day, but until then we shouldn't resort to the "god of the gaps" thing over again. When we come to an unknown, the only honest conclusion is "I dont know yet".

  • Ugh. It was not "aware it was being watched", this is nonsense. It acted that way during observation because of something called Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle - you can Google that if you don't know what it means.

  • @Task5003 They said "as thought it knew it was being watched" not suggesting it actually knew it was being watched and there is where this principle steps into play.

  • @MinecraftingDaddio Still, it's misleading. Especially to laymen. At no stage do they explain the uncertainty principle; the reason why the electron behaved differently.

  • HOLY SLIT! :O

  • I now fully understand the meaning of the term, "mind-fucked".

  • This is the only piece of information in "What The Bleep Do We Know!?: Down The Rabbit Hole" that isn't complete bullshit. Although I would like them to stress that 'observing' has nothing to do with looking at it, it means interacting with in any way by anything.

  • Feign that is not looking!

  • I'm amused. And I thought physics had the answers to the Universe, smh. Guise, get ready for the surprise of your lives.

  • I clicked on this by accident but I noticed that he swore with his fingers twice for the short time I watched it

  • @xxistoleurcookiexx Yes, but in America that isn't swearing. I think only in Britain are two fingers an insult.

  • Doesn't "observing" an electron simply "consume" it? I mean the very fact that the measuring device records a blip is because the electron went into it, bumped onto a ccd or whatever to signal its presence. If it went into the ccd it didn't go past the slit. No mystery.

  • HOLLLYYYY SHIIIIITTTTT

  • Owh god, Finally i find this to study my physics. Searching for this experiment this whole afternoon but No one explain well! Thanks. :D

  • DOES DIS MEAN GOD NO XIST? :<

  • @Mick0722MX Ah, but is not "reliability" a subjective denomination?

    And I do not claim based on these experiments, by the way, that subjectivity is inherently human or animal. It may be a property of any sufficiently organized system.

  • The electron (also photons) travels along helical path (spiring-like) not straight line producing a 3D WAVE . Depending on the extact phase shift when the 3D wave enters either of the slids, it gets defracted at different angles thus producing the multi-bands (even if one at a time).

    To prove Helical 3D Waves [heliwaveCOM] we should find if the middle band in the single slit exp is not brighter than the central band in the double slit exp. The single slit defracting too but no interference.

  • Finicky things, those electrons.

    :S

  • Tsssss....this guys so into quantum, he should take a leap or sumpthin ......

  • @carlosZ1981 lol a chip in the randomest of places

  • I could totally see rockstar games parodying this.

  • Hmm. They used a laser as observer, maybe the laser somehow interfered with the particle? And how did they manage to shoot single electrons?

  • @RaiBok But they actually put polarizer filters in the slits so there was no way they could interfere with the electrons before they hit the slits. But there is truth in what you say because mere act of observing actually interferes with superpositioning which means electrons being in BOTH of the slits and forces it to make a choice (i know this is not the appropriate verb though :). In one of the interpretations of this events it is proposed that two superpositioned waves collapse into one.

  • @egekhan okay, thanks for clearing that up. :) 

  • For laymen, quantum = mindfuck

  • only part of the documentary that isn't fucking bullshit.

  • @009SoundVEVO Yeah, it goes on to say something in the lines of "you're the observer, so basically you can affect quantum processes, so you can be God and change the laws of physics IF YOU ONLY BELIEVE! YOU'VE GOT TO BELIEVE!"

    That was a bummer.

  • Dayum, that's a good physics video!

  • for the love of satan anyone who likes physics do NOT buy into this bullshit interpretation. this entire documentary is riddled with flaws and totally erroneous.

  • @GiantDoucheNG Hell my dear sir, physics is all about finding the new, discovering possibilities and making ten questions from one answer. As your name suggests you are just a Giantdouche. No you know anything about physics. Its rules are made to be broken. And the 'flaws', I dare you to figure them out. Go on. Im sure some one with the knowledge of a bicycle pump could 'easily' challenge people with degrees that spend the life working on these projects. Finally, how dare you call this bullshit.

  • @TheMimileigh Wow. There appears to be a complete miscommunication here. Unless you're honestly trying to troll me I have no alternative other than to conclude you are either severely misinformed in this field or just idiotic. This is not what the double slit experiment means. The observer effect simply means that in the process of collecting information about electron spin and position the actual method of observation effects the data. You don't change particles by looking at them

  • @TheMimileigh Also this documentary is notable for being HEAVILY sensationalized. If you are interested, find this movie's Wikipedia article and read the subheading "Academic reaction." Richard Dawkins and James Randi agreed that it was "tosh" and a "fantasy docudrama." This is absolutely bullshit and a complete slap in the face to theoretical physicists.

  • @GiantDoucheNG I believe that it is saying that the observer greatly changes the outcome and that particles are not just existant, they are aware of there surroundings. Electrons are sentient beings.